Improvement



a. r. STURTEVANT.

Sole-Fastening.

Patented Feb 16,1875.

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THE GRAPHIC CO.PKUTO-LITH.39&41 PARK PLAOEJLY.

BENJAMIN' F. STURTEVANT, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT lN SOLE-FASTENINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,?77, dated February16, 1875; application filed February 8, 1875.

CASE B.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. STURTE- VANT, of Boston, in the countyof Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented 1mprovements inSole-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to improvements in sole-fastenings for boots andshoes; and consists in a ribbon or chain of fastenings, of wood ormetal. The fastenings composing my improved ribbon or chain are unitedor connected together by strands of fibrous material or fine wire.

Figure 1 is a side view of a piece of my improved ribbon of fastenings,and shown as united by strands of fibrous material or of wire. Fig. 2 isan edge view thereof; and the other figures represent modified forms ofmy improvement, and as hereinafter described.

In the drawing, Fig. 1, a designates fastenings made of wood-such woodas is now commonly used for pegs-and the pegs are shown as being round.These fastening-s may be of any desired length or size; and, instead ofbeing round, they may be rectangular, (see I), Fig. 3,) 0r diamond shape0, or oval (l, or hexagoual c, or octagonal c, or of any desired shape.These fastenin gs maybe of metal, and without heads; (see Fig. 4, atf,-)or they may be provided with screw-tln'eads or notches, and a suitableclinching-point, (see 9,) adapted to clinch on an iron-shod last; or themetal fastenings may be of any other well-known shape or kind, and maybe provided with beads, if desired. (See h.)

Instead of wood or metal fasrenin gs, I may employ tastenings of anyother material heretofore used for fastenings, and of any well knownform.

To produce my improved ribbon of fastenings, first make or select solet'astenings, whether of wood, metal, or other substance, of the classand shape that it is desired to employ in the ribbon to be woven. Thentake strands of fibrous material it, or line wire m; mount them inheddleeyes or loops adapted to be moved, as in looms, so as to crossthese strands, which are to be considered as warps, and, as these warpsare crossed to form sheds,

insert between them the fastenings, one by one, and weave them, as itwere, into a ribbon of sole-fastenings, the t'astenings being considered as the weft or filling of the ribbon.

In Fig. 1, h are the warps. Two or more are placed together, and,preferably, the fast enings will be held at intervals, with relation totheir length, by one or more sets of warps.

In Fig. l and other figures, m represents sets of wire warps; but it isnot necessary to use wire warps with fibrous warps, and the wire warpsmay be omitted from the fastenings shown in Fig. 1.

Instead of placing a fastening between each crossing of the warps, as atFigs. 1 and 2, the iastenings may be inserted at, say, every sec ondcrossing, using alternately a fastening for a crossing, and then afibrous weft.

In Fig. 6 such a ribbon is shown, a representing a fastening, and k afibrous weft; or I may retain the fastenings between the warps in anydesired way; and, if desired, I may assist the holding action of thewarps on the fastenings by means of any Well-known cement or \va-X.

In Fig. 6 I show the ends of two classes of fastenings, and either endof the ribbon may be considered as projecting to any length. Theseribbons may be of any desired length, governed by the length of thewarp, and the i'astenings of any desired lengths or sizes. Thesefastenings, it of wood, may have their ends pointed before being woven,as in Fig. l, or may be unpointed, as at Fig. 8, this latter showingboth square and round fastenings of wood or metal, and united withfibrous or wire warps. lt' woven unpointed, the fastenings may besubsequently pointed by cutters before being placed in a.pegging-maehine for use; or they may be pointed when in thepegging-machine by means of any of the devices heretotore described byme for patents for pegging-machines, and which contain cutters forpointing pegs. The driver, meeting these fasteniugs in a l'iegging ornailing machine, will detach them from the warps; or the fast-- enin smay be cut from the ribbon by the usual. cutter.

In Fig. 5 I show two kinds oi metallic fastenings, woven into ribbons.The warps are shown as not drawn taut; but it is understood that theyare to be woven, as are the wooden filstenings, shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Instead of weaving the pegs 0r nails into ribbons, as shown in Figs. 1and 2, they may be woven as shown in Fig. 7, where the warps are twistedtogether between each crossing, or at any intermediate erossings. Thisis the preferable mode for weaving fastenings having heads; butfastenings without heads may be so woven. At the right of Fig.v 7 theline no is designed to designate that the heads may be removed oromitted, and then the said rib h uld present a ribbon of fastenin gswithout h ad and of wood or metal.

Having de ribed my invention, I claim- A ribbon of sole-fiistenings,composed of separate fasteni n gs, united by means of ii blolls ormetallic strands interwoven, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to tlns specification in thepresence of two sub scribing witnesses.

BENJ. F. STURTEVANT. Witnesses G. W. GREGORY, S. B. KIDDER.

